In my mind it strolls, as well as in my apartment. A cat, strong, sweet and delightful.

Strangeness is an ingredient necessary in beauty.

Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.

Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent, without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.

The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.